Date of Birth : Aug 6th 1970
He is the son of the Emmy Award winning actor Brian Cox and his first wife Caroline Burt. Alan was educated at St Paul’s School (London). He has a sister, Margaret, and a half brother Torin Kamran Charles.
Cox portrayed the young John Mortimer the 1982 TV adaptation of his play A Voyage Round My Father, starring opposite Laurence Olivier. He is probably most widely known for his role in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), where he played a teenage version of Dr. Watson. Other films include An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Mrs. Dalloway (1997), and The Auteur Theory (1999).
He is also a respected stage actor, both in Britain and America.
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The Nutcracker in 3D ( 2010 )
August ( 1998 )
Young Sherlock Holmes ( 1986 )